ALRIGHT let's get into it. Straight to the point, no nonsense tutorial.
• Create a new composition 1080px x 1080px, let’s call it Design.
• Write some text, turn it into shapes (right-click → Create → Create shapes from text).
• Animate the path so the text stretches like so in a few seconds time. When animated, right-click on a keyframe and select Keyframe velocity and change coming & going velocity influence to 85%:
• Create another new composition and call it FX. Add your Design pre-comp in this composition.
• Add a new Solid layer on top, call it Displacement map. Now we’re gonna add a bunch of effects on that solid layer.
• First add Gradient Ramp. Make it so the white color would be on the right side (End of Ramp) and black would be on the left side (Start of Ramp);
• Next add a Tritone effect and change the Highlights color to black and Midtones color to white.
• Add Fast Box Blur and change Blur Radius to 100.
• Then it’s time to add Fractal Noise effect, and change Fractal Type to Swirly, Noise Type to Spline. Then bring down the Transform panel and uncheck Uniform Scaling, make Scale Width 60, and change Scale Height to a very high number, such as 10000.0.
• Add a keyframe to Evolution at the beginning, and the second keyframe at 2 seconds rotating the slider for one rotation. Add an expression loopOut() on these keyframes so it loops.
• And lastly change the Blending mode to Overlay (at the bottom of the effect).
• The last effect we’re gonna add is Turbulent Displace. Change Displacement to Twist, Amount to 150, Size 130. Add the same keyframes to the Evolution as we did previously on Fractal Noise and loop them with the same expression.
So far your work should look something like this:
• Then it’s time to add colors! Create another new composition, add your FX pre-comp to it, add a background with a new solid layer (CTRL + Y).
• Then add Echo effect to your FX pre-comp, change Echo Time to -0.030, Starting Intensity to 0.03, Decay to 0.94.
• Next add Gaussian Blur effect, make the Blurriness 10.
• Add Colorama effect, change Get Phase From to Alpha. Then go to Output Cycle and change the color presets (Use Preset Palette) to let’s say Solarize Red (it doesn’t really matter, we’re gonna change the colors, we just need it to have two sliders instead of a lot). Then grab a bottom slider and put it on the left side and choose the lighter color you want. I chose pink.
• Now duplicate your FX pre-comp. We’re gonna change some parameters on the effects.
• So the first thing you want to do is change Echo Time to -0.005, Starting Intensity to 1.
• On Colorama go to Modify and uncheck Modify Alpha. Then go to Output Cycle, and add more colors like you see in the screenshot.
• Duplicate your FX pre-comp one more time and delete all the effects on it.
• Last thing to do is add an Adjustment Layer (Ctrl + Alt + Y), add the Noise effect, and make the Amount of Noise 15.0%.
[ID: Animated clips from the linked Magnus Archives animation.
Jon prays with a strained expression while root-like tendrils reach for him. A flatlining heart monitor starts to beat as a crown lowers over his head.
Elias reaches out a hand with a smirk while inside a jail cell.
Multiple frames are shown over a spiderweb background: They show season one Jon signing his contract with a grinning Elias.
Multiple frames are shown over a collage of various cut out statements in the background. They show season four Jon noticing Jess Terrell and speaking to her, eyes turning green as he smiles unnervingly. End ID]
Thank you @/princess-of-purple-prose for the description!!
Remember all your slaughters,
And remember some had daughters.
Your time's up, I am payday,
And I suggest you quickly say...
Animated Katara fanart set to part of Morgan Clae's "Katara's Villain Song" (check out her tiktok for the full song)
ID: Sad and vengeful Katara from the episode "The Southern Raiders", a wall of wavering water behind her from the dome she created, as raindrops float in the air as she potentially prepares to end the life of her mother's killer.
also in terms of the bolas playlist it's fascinating to me that the songs added by each person have a slight tendency to represent a consistent aspect of bolas
like
the songs added by slime are their chaos
the songs added by philza are their rebellion
the songs added by cellbit are their rage
the songs added by baghera are their anguish
it's so fucking FASCINATING TO ME but i don't know enough music theory to elaborate lmfao this is Vibes Only
(mouse's songs i can't boil down to an easy noun which is why they aren't mentioned lmao anyway they go hard asf)
(also i went on the longest fucking unhinged elaboration in the tags lmfao i almost didn't have enough tags left to tag "long tags" at the end
(i could have even gone on longer in terms of where their characters were at entering purgatory [philza: cage for a cage; cellbit: fed worker murders; baghera: her past as a federation experiment; slime: turning into a code because of the code pretending to be his daughter] but i ran out of space and also time it's 4AM AAAAA)
• Write your text, pre-comp it, call it Text or whatever you want.
• Create a mask from the center to one side (top/bottom), change anchor point to the top.
• Bring down Scale property and unlink it, keyframe the text to go from 100% to 0% in 1s towards the anchor point.
• Cut the layer at the end.
• Duplicate pre-comp.
• Select the bottom one, click M to bring down mask properties, invert the mask and move anchor point to the bottom (so the text scales to the bottom).
• Duplicate Text pre-comp one more time. Select it, press M and delete the mask, move anchor point to the center. Create new keyframes to scale it from 0 to 100 in 1s (properties unlinked). Select both keyframes and delay it by 1 frame. It makes the text look like it’s scaling from the center.
• Change bottom and top text color by adding Fill effect to the pre-comp.
• Easy ease all keyframes.
• Select all pre-comps and duplicate them, put them at the top and put them at the back to extend your animation (or arrange in your preferred order if you’re doing a phrase like me). So far it should look something like this:
• Create new comp Wave of 10s, add your Split comp.
• Create new Solid layer, call it Map, add Gradient Ramp effect, make white at the left, black at the right and hide the layer.
• Select Split pre-comp, Right-click → Time → Enable Time Remapping and extend the layer to the end.
• Add loopOut() expression to Time Remap.
• On Split pre-comp add the effect Time Displacement, on Time Displacement Layer select your Solid layer (Map), and on Source select Effects & Mask.
• Change Time Resolution (fps) to 250-300.
• Add Fast Box Blur effect, change Blur Radius to 0.5.
• To bring back the sharpness add Curves effect, change the Channel to Alpha and change values (see screenshot).
• Play around with Max Displacement Time [sec] on Time Displacement effect depending on the look you’re going for. I set it to 0.5.
• Now this whole animation is driven by our Solid layer (Map) we created. So if you make any changes to it, the animation changes too. For example, you can change Ramp Shape to Radial on Gradient Ramp effect, and see how it changes your animation.
• I additionally added some texture on the text, used Track Matte and added wiggle(5,500) expression to the Rotation property so texture would be constantly moving. Also added some additional effects to the new Adjustment Layer on top such as Roughen edges, Turbulent Displace, Posterize Time and Noise. Let your freak flag fly - it’s a matter of taste and creativity of what you do with it. Your animation should look something like this:
I'm trying to kick up my art game by actually trying to keep a sketchbook and drawing every day. Start time is 3/10 for no reason, but I'm going to try and keep up for at least a month to start and go from there.
You know, in addition to all the other projects I'm doing :)
If I manage to keep it up, I'll try graduating to doing some digital practices every day.
okay but does anyone except for Mori and Fukuzawa know that Yosano is exempt from the ADA member switches to PM deal? Because if Fukuzawa kicks the bucket and nobody knows about the true conditions that could cause some real problems for the future.